Singapore shares closed higher for the eighth consecutive session on Monday (Jan 17), with the Straits Times Index rising by 5.98 points or 0.2 per cent to close at 3,287.95. Across the Singapore market, decliners outpaced advancers 258 to 193 after some 1.13 billion securities worth S$1.09 billion changed hands.
Other major regional indices were mostly down, as South Korea's Kospi dipped 1.1 per cent, Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur Composite Index fell by 0.8 per cent and both Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index and Indonesia's Jakarta Composite Index slid by 0.7 per cent. On the other hand, Japan's Nikkei 225 rose by 0.7 per cent.
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